Table of contents

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. List of abbreviations vii
4. Investigating the lifespan perspective 1
5. Disassociating the effects of age from phonetic change 9
6. Phonological variation in real time 39
7. Language production in late life 59
8. Vocabulary and dementia in six novelists 77
9. A sociolinguistic perspective on vocabulary richness in a seven-year comparison of older adults 109
10. Age-related variation and language change in Early Modern English 129
11. Lifespan and linguistic awareness 147
12. Tired mind or tired hand? 167
13. Kriegsausbruch, Kriegs Ausbruch, KriegsAusbruch 189
14. Index 231